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by orangesite 873 days ago
Yeah, another universe where you have wizards who know how to fold the paper correctly to make the ambient computational environment do things.

Hard pass.

Folk computing for me is a hardware/software layer stripped off the commercial abstractions that hide the inherent simplicity of the medium.

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> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I thought it was a pithy comment that quickly indicated that, like emacs or vi versus pico or nano versus notepad, that this seems like a system that would segment people into lusers, users, and powerusers even harder than modern computing interfaces.